Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 21
The spirit was returning home, but now sees strangers and is turning aside.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: return, see, turn · To what, where: strangers
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka Catching a Ghost. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spirit | det |
| 2 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returning | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returning | aux |
| 4 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 returning | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sees | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 sees | cc |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 sees | advmod |
| 9 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 returning | parataxis |
| 10 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sees | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turning | cc |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 turning | aux |
| 13 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 sees | conj |
| 14 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 13 turning | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past · progressive | the spirit | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | present | strangers | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | turn | present · progressive | aside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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